Thursday’s interview with presenter Dana Bash will be the first since Harris overtook US President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate.
CNN said the interview with President Biden will be conducted by CNN anchor and chief political correspondent Dana Bash from the battleground state of Georgia. It will be aired at 9 p.m. (01:00 GMT) on Friday.
“This is the first time she’s going to take questions in a concerted effort like this, in an interview format, since Joe Biden upended this entire race six weeks ago,” CNN Political Director David Chalian told the channel.
While Harris has occasionally answered some questions from journalists on the campaign trail regarding both foreign and economic policies, she has not done a one-on-one interview with the media or conducted a news conference and has been taken to the cleaners by rival Donald Trump and his Republican party.
On Tuesday, Trump’s campaign responded to the announcement that Harris would shortly be interviewing Walz.
“She is not capable of doing it herself.” This is the thesis of the campaign.
There are Trump’s recent news conferences and media interviews that have been done, but in those, he has been mainly attacking Biden’s presidency rather than spelling out his own plans.
At the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris outlined several very sweeping policy stances, vowing to provide a middle-class tax cut domestically and a hawkish foreign policy of speaking out to Russia and North Korea while supporting a truce to Gaza and a two-state solution in the Middle East.
In nearly three years of her service as vice president, Harris has offered on-camera and in-print interviews to the AP news agency as well as many others occasionally or more frequently than Biden.
